Category: Earth Community

  • Planted Expo – North America’s Biggest Plant-Based Event of the Year!

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    Planted Expo, North America’s largest plant-based event, is set to return to Vancouver this summer for its 10th consecutive year. Scheduled to take place from June 1st to June 2nd at the Vancouver Convention Centre, the expo aims to celebrate and promote plant-based living and sustainability. With over 200 exhibitors, Planted Expo offers attendees the…

  • Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Traditional Knowledge

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    This discussion brings to the fore the perspectives of indigenous peoples and other key stakeholders on the ways forward to promoting traditional knowledge and explores pathways to innovations that can support the creation of indigenous led green enterprises and jobs. To learn more about ILO’s work on indigenous and tribal peoples, visit www.ilo.org/indigenous.

  • Fairphone Focused on Sustainability

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    Kudos to Fairphone! With customers on average upgrading their phones every 2.7 years and less than 5% of materials available for reuse, phones create a monumental amount of e-waste. That’s the issue Fairphone is trying to tackle. The manufacturer is focused on sustainability, relying on fair-trade sourcing and fair labor practices, and using recycled materials in…

  • Food

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    Here are a couple of interesting blurbs about food you may want to share: Who knew? …new evidence suggests that if you eat enough spinach, it’s basically like taking steroids. It sounds crazy, but it’s backed by the results of a scientific study led by a team of researchers from the Institute of Pharmacy at Freie Universität…

  • Fair Trade, Carbon Neutral Rum – Woohoo!!

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    Not to sound like a total ad for this rum, but their dedication to the environment, their workers and community is pretty impressive: In 2017, Flor de Caña became Fair Trade certified (by U.S.-based organization Fair Trade USA), assuring consumers that the rum is sustainably produced in compliance with over 300 rigorous labour, social and…

  • The Importance of a Healthy Gut

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    In his blog “Turning the Tide” Dr. David Glass discusses pre-biotics, probiotics and most recently – postbiotics. Post-biotics are metabolites of the bacteria in the intestine that have beneficial activities on the body.  These include short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) such as propionate, butyrate and acetate (vinegar).  I remember learning about these substances way back in…

  • Buru Island Fishermen Profit from Small Scale Fishing Through Fair Trade

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    For all you sushi lovers out there concerned about the issue of overfishing, you’ll be happy to learn about how Anova Food, LLC, (who leads the industry in global sourcing of wild caught and sustainably harvested tuna) was able to work with local fishermen and processors in Indonesia to insure sustainable fishing practices. An article…

  • The Transvida Cooperative

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    This article on the RioOnWatch site really caught my attention. It shows how even the poorest communities can benefit by forming a cooperative. Cooperativa Transvida Promotes Recycling and Environmental Awareness In 2011, then engaged in various projects through her church, Oliveira saw a group of residents picking through trash in the community in search of…

  • History of Fair Trade

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    Like many of you, my relationship with fair trade began with coffee. Since then, I’ve gone from buying fair trade whenever possible to starting my own fair trade business, Noah’s Gifts and Gallery. Despite my long relationship with and support for fair trade I didn’t know much about its history. I took the time recently…

  • Simple Ways to Go Zero Waste

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    Erin Rehm takes every opportunity to educate others about reducing waste. At December’s IDEAS For Us Hive, a monthly meeting where community members brainstorm climate change solutions, she spoke to a room of 50-some individuals about the importance of adopting a zero waste philosophy. Our garbage, and, yes, that includes materials rejected from recycling facilities,…